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Washington Post:
What is the Sponsored Blogroll? — The Sponsored Blogroll is an index on the washingtonpost.com homepage that promotes bloggers who are participating in a partnership with the advertising team of WPNI. If you are a blogger or blog network looking to expand your readership and advertising …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Washington Post Launches Blogroll Ad Network — Jeff Burkett at WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive blogs that the WashingtonPost has launched a brand new program that helps marketers find blogs to advertise on. It's called the Sponsored Blogroll. — Basically, the way this works …
Paul Bond / Reuters:
EchoStar must disable DVRs, judge rules — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A judge has ordered EchoStar to disable the digital video recorders used by several million subscribers to its Dish satellite TV service because they infringe on patents held by TiVo.
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Business Wire:
EchoStar Asks Federal Court to Stay Texas Injunction — ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 18, 2006—EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH) issued the following statement regarding recent developments in the Tivo Inc. v. EchoStar Communications Corp. lawsuit:
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Boeing to End Its Service for Using Internet Aloft — Maybe it was the Internet bubble in the sky or perhaps it was just that the business plan could not fly. — Boeing announced on Thursday that it planned to scrap its in-flight Internet service, saying there was not enough demand.
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Agence France Presse:
Boeing abandons in-flight Internet service — CHICAGO (AFP) - US aerospace giant Boeing Co. said it was abandoning its Connexion unit providing high-speed Internet service on planes after only a handful of airlines signed up. — "Over the last six years, we have invested substantial time …
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Matt Andrejczak / MarketWatch:
Dell adds AMD chips to desktop PC line — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Dell Inc., the world's No. 1 PC maker, will use microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in some of its consumer desktop computers, breaking its exclusive PC chip supply agreement with Intel Corp.
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apple.com:
Report on iPod Manufacturing — Like many of you, we were concerned by reports in the press a few weeks ago alleging poor working and living conditions at a manufacturing facility in China where iPods are assembled. Our Supplier Code of Conduct mandates that suppliers of Apple products …
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Engadget, Nyquist Capital, MacSlash, The Bb Gun, Gizmodo, Silicon Valley Watcher, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Blogging Stocks, Guardian Unlimited, Ben Metcalfe Blog, MacUser, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, michael parekh on IT, The Digital Music Weblog, E-consultancy, Digital Music News and Boing Boing
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Paul Graham / paulgraham.infogami.com:
The Kiko Affair — There's a lot of talk lately about Kiko's founders putting the site up for auction on eBay. There's both less and more than meets the eye here. — I think Dharmesh Shah is overreacting, for example, when he implies this somehow signals the end of "Web 2.0:"
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E-consultancy, Kevin Burton's Feed Blog, Digital Micro-Markets, Signal vs. Noise and jkanstyle
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Alan / gedankengang:
Amazon's Digital Video sneak peek: "Amazon Unbox" — It seems Amazon might soon be launching their digital video download store, called "Amazon Unbox Video". According to what I can find, it'll have purchase and rental capability, as well as support for devices other than your PC (Your TV and Creative Zen Vision at least).
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Preliminary Results of Tender Offer — Company expects to acquire 155 million shares at $24.75 per share; boosts ongoing share repurchase program by $16 billion. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the preliminary results of its modified "Dutch Auction" tender offer …
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
MacBook Wi-Fi hack didn't use Apple drivers — In early August a senior researcher at SecureWorks said he had revealed a vulnerability in Apple's MacBook wireless software driver that would allow him to take control of the machine. While the researcher did find a vulnerability …
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Business Week:
Wiretap Ruling Threatens Telecoms — Businesses accused of helping the Bush Administration eavesdrop on customers could be in for a legal bruising — Telecommunications and Internet companies accused of working with the Bush Administration's domestic eavesdropping program …
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Computers write news at Thomson — First it was the typewriter, then the teleprinter. Now a US news service has found a way to replace human beings in the newsroom and is instead using computers to write some of its stories. — Thomson Financial, the business information group …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ready To Party? — The TechCrunch August Capital party is tonight, Friday, at August Capital in Menlo Park (map). The fun starts at 6 pm. Additional details are on the wiki. — There will be plenty to eat and drink, lots of companies will be demo'ing, and as always Pandora is piping in the music.
